Ren'Py - Power Vacuum [Ch. 12 Official] [What? Why? Games]

First thoughts of this game were that it was rather cheaply done, but that opinion has changed a little. It does still have a cheap feeling to it, some of the story line and renders are not exactly excellent. Still it grew on me rather fast.

Story - 8/10 There is quite a lot of comical commentary which is not bad although it does go overboard a little. The rest is pretty much involved in close to every usual fetish that is known. Some are a little much, still for some reason it does capture interest.

Originality - 9/10 Have not come across a story/game that tries so hard to involve so many fetishes. I must say that it is done pretty well, there is room for improvement, and it does go a little fast. Still it is more interesting that many others out there.

Renders - 7/10 Here there is definitely room for improvement. A great deal of the renders feel out of date. Although there is a lot to see that is fine. It still has that feeling that it is outdated.

Animations - 9/10 This is where it shines, the animations although certainly not the best. Are a vast improvement over so many others. I give the dev high marks for this, Animations and story are the Main draw in these story/games, and it is quite well done in this one. Of course the sex scenes are still rather short in my opinion, i have seen others that do a better job, still this one is pretty well done.

Grammar - 8/10 There are certainly spelling and grammar errors, as well as comments that don't make sense. A more thorough proof read before putting the chapters out would fix that.

Amount of content - 9/10 Very good amount of content in most chapters, some feel a little short. Certainly high marks for this.


Overall well done, still room for improvement. at first i was not impressed by this story/game at first viewing. That changed after my first complete play through. If the renders were improved along with some of the story, and the animations were longer and a little more involved. This would certainly be a more highly rated and well known story/game. I do like this one, just wish it were better.

This game.... I mean, I really should hate it. It has a lot of things I hate in it, yet for some reason, I enjoyed way too many hours playing.

CONS:
To be honest, the only thing I have against the game is it is way too wordy. I know the banter is part of the charm of this game, but it could tonned down a bit. When you play it from the beginning, it gets to be too much. Plus you know it's just banter, so you start to skim it anyway. I would also like to see the character icons go away from the room selection when they don't do anything anymore. Like Catherine and the spa or Brenna and the pool.

PROS:
I normally don't even bother with games containing incest; it's just not my thing. Additionally, I dislike most sandbox style games. I am also not a hug fan of grind to get to the good stuff. But here I am, talking about how great this game is.

I think for me, it's like watching incest porn. You know they are actors and not really related so I could really care less. In this case, the dev has made this family so much NOT a family and with such crazy banter, that I don't view them as "real". What I mean by that is sometimes these games/VNs have a more serious, realistic story to them where the siblings develop serious feelings for each other. Well, there is nothing serious in this story so it makes it easier for me to get past my uncomfortable feelings.

I also think every game should have a Hunter character. This is the best thing to ever happen to NTR. Seriously. I love everyone of his scenes. He is the skeviest, nastiest, grossest big dick bastered I have ever seen in these games. I think every dev should immediately him to their stories.

Conclussion: If you are looking for a serious game, there is nothing at all to see here. If you are looking for a fun romp through wacking material and totally unrealistic situations and behaviours, then look no furthur. Just becareful what you eat and drink while you are there.

Exceptionally good game. One of the best, certainly in the top ten. Probably even top five. Well-developed characters (both main and side), funny ideas, appealing texts, and the iPatch tops things off . The facial expressions and animations in the hot scenes are awesome.

For me, it also came to the fact that I had not updated the game since 2019 (chapter 2). Somehow I always overlooked the updates. Now I'm on chapter 7 in the game and each chapter tops the previous one.

This game is a must play! Hats off to the developer...

I admit, I had mixed feelings during chapter 1, but once I got through it, I started to really appreciate the slow pace. What else can I say? It's a really good fucking game. You'll be blueballed for the first few chapters, but it's totaly worth it!
Trust me, dev put a lot more work into it than I into writing this review.

The dialogue is witty and well written. The renders and character models are good as well. The premise is so absurd and so are the resulting scenarios but the commitment to the world created and its rules is one hundred percent, which coupled with the rapid fire witticisms gives playing the game a feeling akin to alice stepping into wonderland albeit a slightly perverse one. 5/5 stars.

So far is the best game I've ever played.
The game has a good story, a wonderful art, fantastic milf and excellent animations.
The NTR is right on point, you have the choice to decide if you wanna see it or not, which i found it a great solution for the NTR haters.

Just waiting for and fucking with Ophelia, now a clicker will be waiting for us
.in the beginning, interestingly thin now madly thinning. everyone is waiting for him to fuck Ophelia! Perhaps it will be waiting for it to be worth it, Otherwise, like the game the average of Ophelia and Brena ok, I would like to spice up some super characters and the entanglement rather do the sequel II

I used to have a massive aversion to NTR and dodged a lot of games because of the NTR tag before playing this, but this game has given me a bit of a love for NTR games (when the mood takes me anyway.)

I give this the full 5 stars because in my opinion it's one of the best games I've found on this site, the writing is fantastic, funny and doesn't take itself seriously and I really enjoy the story. The characters are amazing, I don't think there's a bad one in the bunch (MC was kinda boring in the beginning but got better with time.)

Definitely in my top 5 games on this site (probably 1st or 2nd if I'm truly honest.)

çI dont even care if the game is good at this point cause i have been palying for 2 hours and 4 minutes and the good thing about the game taht is the writing and the jokes became far far from annoying like 1 hour ago.
Everybody talks the asme kind of joke, semi intelectual thingy humour, it gets tiring, its like living wiht a "funny" virgin, and i have been there i dont want to live with myself again, so please stop this.

I would care if there was some balance, for instance 140 minutes of annoying dialogues and 10 minutes of decent sexual scenes, but its not the case. The actual case is 170 minutes of annoying dialogues and repeated scenes, for instance the soap opera event (which is 12 days repeating it, to acomplish a kiss in the mouth) and 30 seconds of something that may resemble a sex scene.
By the way, Cathy, at least in the begining is about feet, unavoidable.
Girls tits are horrendous, and they are 2 girls with those "perks"
nemesis is horrendous, ugly and seeing it kils any mood that exist for the next 2 minutes of sex scenes, and seing that in 3 hours you only get 30 seconds, you can imagine how outrageously bad this is.

Will the game inmprove after 3 hours? i dont know and i dont care, this is not worthy of anybodys time. Bt if you like it, good for you, i just cant take it anymore. A Skipfest, that is funny for 20 minutes, where you basically see and do nothing but grinding.

I AM NOT JOKING. lAST EVENT WAS 125 CLICS, AND GOT 2 RENDERS OF A KISS. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE CLICS for a kiss. 125 lines of dialogue FOR A KISS.

Edit:
I replayed all the way through CH9 rgiht when the scene with Amber and Cath and I finally Alt+F4ed cause the scenes are just not worth, most of them are horrendous. Sex scenes are bad, characters look attrocious, and the only value the game has is unrelated to porn which are some dialogues. But those same dialogues are some sort of cream for a cake that sucks, but an uverused cream, maybe like peanut butter or something, or ketchup.
Very amateurish, to the point that in CH9 all of the sudden there is a lot of Wet effect being used, everyone is sweaty all of the sudden.

If you want a couple of laughs, play it, dont play it for the porn cause main characters are plot protected by blueball marketing techniques, and the scenes just suck.

Version: Ch. 8

This is a slow burner game, it takes a lot of time to take of and that's ok, but I have a mixed feelings about this.

The beginning of the game, and I'm talking about the first 8-10 hours or even more the game isn't that impressive but as you progress it getting slightly better and better. The story and characters become more interesting but in my opinion it happens way too late (and it has nothing to do with the game being a slow burner).

The animations at the beginning is ok and I would say above average and as you get deeper into the game they gets better and livelier.

Progressing the story doesn't feel like a grind because every step in the questline accompanied with new dialogue and small progression - in contrast with just grinding stats with the same scenes over and over. But on the other hand, you don't have really any choice in the game except choosing the order of the progression in the quest lines of the girls. Moreover, let say you have a girl you don't like, you don't have a choice to not progress her story, you must do all stories of all girls.

The writing felt to me monotonous in the emotion you get throughout the game and also in the speech of the girls, meaning that the characters didn't feel like they have personality, tonality and patterns of their own but like the same girl talking but in different bodies.
Though I can say that the characters grew personality as the game progressed but way way too far for the average player to push through. I think the intervention party scene was the first time I saw a glimpse of potential the game could have if it divided the story to high and low points and had not a linear monotonous arc but more of a bumpy one.

To add to all of the above, I found many inconsistencies in the story and it breaks the immersion hard. Like when you make some character mad at you in one story line but in the other story line it has 0 effect like nothing happened. Then finally when you get back to the other story line, suddenly the character is mad at you when I already forgot what happened and was surprised.
Also, sometimes there were no followup to some of the scenes which made it look like they were important. Like when the mother is mad and telling you to come talk to her, but nothing happens and you find her fine and well later on which by the dialogue farther you understand that this "talk" with her happened not with you, the player, present in the situation - which is a really weird choice in this type of game.

Maybe you will let few chuckles throughout the game but for me, the game wasn't that funny even in its "absurd" situations.

Overall I think the game had potential because you can see it farther in the game (chapters 6+ maybe) with the story getting better, the visuals with regards the animations are getting better but to get their, you have to push through hours of not so fun gameplay and dialogue.

First three stars, now down to two.

First rating: 3 Stars because it is funny, lots of sex and many attractive women. Bad points about the game are the fact that NTR is only for old-ugly-fat-disgusting bastard.
Furthermore many women dropped massively with time, for instace Lucia and cath.

Second rating: Down to two stars because the downfall of the female characters is becoming worse. Now Rebecca has reached an all time low in that matter. The game needs these type of things or "fetishes" to be optional or at least let the women be optional, if they already did such things in the past.

The animations and models are top notch; easily the best out of most (if not all games). The story is hilarious too ( a major plus that brings people to the game again and again). The NTR is a plus, but doesn't become overbearing in the story. Fantastic job by the dev.

I'm gonna have to agree with most of the lower-rating reviews on this one. I enjoyed the game up until the broken-dick became the main focus of the game and its humor. During and after that chapter, I found myself fed up with the constant jokes, the endless teasing, and the lack of relationship progression. We'd hit a milestone for a character (i.e. handjob or blowjob) and then it would just stagnate.

I like most of the girls, but unfortunately, the game is just constantly bombarding you with jokes that derail (broken-dick) or stall progression. I'm not going to comment on the NTR aspects of the game because I'm not interested in that fetish and had it disabled.

SUMMARY
This game is full of content, but because it's served in a chapter by chapter format, it's an unbearable grindfest. You have to use the guide to play, because the dialogue is so poorly written and provides little to no context as to where you should go or what you should do next. If you don't, you'll end up skipping day after day to get to specific events just to progress.

GRAPHICS
The CGs are plentiful, but the quality is subpar until the later chapters, and even then it can be hit or miss depending on if it was a DAZ template (good) or if the author animated it themselves (meh). Models are good looking, but they look incredibly plastic due to the overwhelmingly flat environments and the Windows XP wallpaper backgrounds that decided to take a dump on the skybox. Animations have a doll-like stiffness. I think this can be seen best in the characters breasts and legs--while these are very thick characters, they look like big chunky plastic dolls. They do get better as the chapters continue, but some character models (specifically Catherine) really need to be redone in their entirety. She looks almost alien in her face and robotic in her joints. You can see the improvement in newer character models in the later chapters, and when the new characters are put side by side with the older ones, it's incredibly noticeable.

WRITING
The writing in this game is bad. Truly cringeworthy, fully intact virginity incel levels of bad. There's a scene early on in the game where they poke fun at non-consent as being somewhat controversial while depicting it regularly in NTR scenes where the player has no control of the events unfolding. And in another scene later on, the mother character makes a sex game VN inside the game that is heavily uncanny valley levels of eye torture. There is an entire chapter of the game dedicated to the main character breaking his dick, and getting it to work again, and because of that writing you can thank the 200 or so CGs where you'll be staring at the MC's skinny broken pinky finger. None of it is funny.

I think people overlook how important decent writing is when making sex games. This game's writing and pacing is so poor it holds the entire game back. It's so bad in fact I'd consider it translation error.

PARTING THOUGHTS
I would suggest to the author of the game that they get an actual writer to translate the horrible writing to something somewhat cohesive in the now, so that as they continue to improve the game it can be enjoyed for what it excels at now: above par CGI.

It was a good game but now no one can remember it.

Pros:
Beautiful female characters.

Cons:

Normal renders
Character personalities
Humor that doesn't make you laugh
Boobs and butt look like sicolicone +fat grafting.
Silly horror story
Plot that doesn't intrigue

I don't normally give a 5 star review. There is always something about a game that makes me go three, maybe 4 stars. But this game is a very rare occurrence.
It has everything. Great renders. Great story. Hilarious moments.
The women all are original, not the usual same characters you see in countless games just with different names.
The NTR is actually some of the best parts. Or, let me say, trying to keep from getting the NTR is. I don't have a problem with the NTR content in games. Usually I can keep it or leave it. But with this game, I like to pick the wrong option just so I can see what happens, then go back and chose the correct one.
If I had to pick one thing to nit-pick about, I think it would be the fact that Hunter has an obscenely oversized dick. I'd rather see characters who are more correct with real people. But, as I say, that is a small problem that I can deal with easily.
Keep up the great work, and I'm anxiously awaiting the next installment!

I love NTR i.e. I love this game with it's sexy chicks who crave those big thick cocks LMAO
No seriously, it's a pretty mwell done porn gameand the NTR add more spice to it. And adding some well done and beutiful woman make it even better. For me it's a turn-off when the dev hasn't put down enough time to make the people look good and such a game should just be a text game but certainly not yhis game. Well done WWG!

The story is a mix of two things:
a>pornified landlady-based 'Friends' reboot
b>semi-serious horror plot.

It's more of a mess than a mix. The self-conceited 'Instagram comedy' of characters talking about their quotidian foibles and hijinks fell flat for me. But hey most reviewers seem to like it, so ymmv.

The 'serious horror plot', where you prevent your demonic grandpa from fucking your landladies by fucking them yourself. Basically it's role is to punish you with grandpa cuckoldry followed by redeemable game over if you make bad choices.

3dcg porno npcs tend to be quite annoying, and the ones here are above average in that regard. Everyone is a loquacious bipolar maniac about everything. It comes across as unnervingly cringey and fake. They literally act like reaction streamers. With a little bit of grounding in actual human behaviour, some of the humour might actually be funny but as it is the best I can manage is a polite smile.

The sandbox aspect is completely redundant because you're just triggering scenes by visiting rooms in the house. You have to grind by repeating events, but the game has an in-built walkthrough that tells you where and how many times. It's annoying but well within my tolerance. There's also an in-built scene replay gallery which is cool.

Renders are decent. Anims are pretty good. However the models' faces often look weird and sometimes grotesque (not talking about the plentiful ahegao, which I can take or leave). Most of the girls also have breasts, asses and hips completely out of proportion to the rest of their anatomy. It just doesn't look real, so isn't sexy. But given all the 5 star reviews, ymmv.

Some of the h-scenes are kinky/weird (not counting the landlady stuff) and that's a good thing per se, but the aforesaid drawbacks/issues prevented me from enjoying them.

In summary the game has some good things but they're misused and thus don't contribute much to fappability. 3 stars for gfx and h-scenes, -1 for everything else.

Great incest content w/ "funny" gags and ahegao faces that would make a Gobbo cry. With NTR spice that is completely optional but quality each time, I wish more games were made with this level of fun.

I really wanted to love this game. It has great renders, tags that interest me, and while the plot of the story is nothing you haven't seen before, the writing is very polished, and doesn't pull you out of the experience.

So, how does the game lose two stars?

- First, because this game is desperately crying out to be a kinetic VN. Where you do have choices, they are clearly telegraphed, and there is no freedom provided by the sandbox elements...the game holds your hand as you move through them. On the positive side, this means the sandbox isn't confusing, but it does make it feel like a completely inessential part of the game....and when you've finished all the content for the chapter except for one or two events...the whole thing just becomes a click fest. Initially I thought this might have been done to pad out the game, but the dev has created a decent amount of content, so I'm not really sure what it's all about. Re-using assets, perhaps.

- Second, while the MC isn't unlikable, they dip into the category of 'golly gee shucks' my sister wants me to take sexy photos of her! What an inconvenience! I appreciate that an MC who wants to bang all their family members right off the bat is unrealistic, but I think this VN would have been better served by having the MC lean into the competition with gramps right off the bat. This keeps most of the interactions at a surface level, and tends to let humor triumph over eroticism.

This is by no means a bad game, and the two aspects that caused me to remove stars may not be issues for many readers. If they aren't, this VN may well be right up your alley.

My recommendation is check it out and at least play the first chapter, by then you should be able to get a read on the MC and the gameplay, and know if it's for you or not.